SportsDay's Brad Townsend wrote an in-depth profile of Rangers general manager Jon Daniels for the Sunday section of the Dallas Morning News. In case you missed it, click here to read it in full, and also tune in to Fox Sports Southwest at 5 p.m. Sunday to catch In My Own Words: Jon Daniels. Here are a few highlights that Townsend covered in his story:

Earning his stripes: Daniels graduated from Cornell in the late '90s, but his Ivy League education didn't earn him a straight shot to the top. In 2001, Daniels left a corporate job at Allied Domecq PLC for a $1,200-per-month internship with the Colorado Rockies and slept on a mattress in a friend’s unfinished basement to help make ends meet. A year later, the Rangers hired him as a baseball operations assistant and paid him $30,000 a year. Now, Daniels' salary exceeds the seven-figure mark.

Finding time: Aside from juggling the day-to-day tasks of an MLB general manager, Daniels has the added stresses of being a father to three young children. While Townsend points out that most general managers earn their long-hour gigs in their 40s and 50s (by which point, their kids are mostly grown up and independent), Daniels started working as a GM at 28. That means his kids -- Lincoln (5), Harper (3) and Charlotte (8 months) -- tend to need a little more attention.

Keeping cool: The demands of Daniels' life are enough to make most people snap, but he manages to handle his daily tasks with a calm, laid-back approach. Even during times of peak pressure -- like the MLB trade deadline -- he doesn't show signs of stress. “I probably bury it,” Daniels said jokingly. “And I’ll probably have some medical issues later in life. ... That’s just my demeanor. I’ll have emotional peaks and valleys from time to time, but I am a pretty even-keeled person. That’s just how I’m wired."

Still a fan: Daniels isn't some disconnected executive -- he's a die-hard baseball fan. He grew up in New York loving the Mets, and the fan in him still exists, which made the Rangers' latest World Series loss especially tough to swallow. Daniels says that baseball in the Northeast is like football in Texas, with fans hanging on every moment. "That’s still ingrained in me,” he says. “I’ve tried to even it out. I’m much better now during the regular season. The postseason, I’m still ‘highs and lows with every pitch.’ "